PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Provision of Research Specification for Communications and Marketing Campaign

Government Commercial Agency · published 1 Oct 2026. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release ID8dd803f1-6e2f-4f88-81f2-0babeff79f3f-916093
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-83af6453-620f-4d6c-b260-20ec076f24b6
Buyer identifierGB-SRS-supplierregistration.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/6sQD8uds
Release typeawardUpdate
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
£7,225,000
award field
Tender value
£7,225,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
goods
CPV
73110000
Research services
Delivery
North East, United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

The purpose of this requirement is to appoint one research Supplier to carry out insight gathering and evaluation of paid-for marketing campaigns run by HMRC over the duration of the agreement, as well as more general research projects to benefit HMRC

Tender statuscomplete
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

Reported dates, without an invented lifecycle.

The current projection contains one award release, not a verified chain of planning, tender, award, contract and modification records. Dates are shown in source-field order and are not silently repaired.

Source-date conflictAt least one reported end date precedes its corresponding start date. Check the official notice before using the schedule.
  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release1 Oct 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published1 Aug 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published2 Jul 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published23 Aug 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published23 Aug 2029
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

A company profile appears only when this release carries a usable company number. Name-only suppliers remain name-only.

Published name only

IPSOS (MARKET RESEARCH) LTD

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 1 Oct 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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